Hey another chapter is up! Thank you so much to the people who reviewed! I just wanna keep on writing and writing :) don't really have anything to say but ITS ALMOST SUMMER! That means more time to write.

Oh and I don't own bleach (if I did I'd make Toshiro and Karin be together XD)

Chapter 4: Game of Baseball & Eavesdropping

Karin opened her eyes seeing the normal white ceiling of her bed room. She tried to get up feeling a bit sore and remembered the night before. She had the dream... again. Damn... these dreams are going to drive me on top of that how the hell did I get home. I was at the park with Toshiro when those cat things came... they looked like the ones from my dreams which is freaking impossible. That damn shorty knew what was going on, he made me black out the lil-

"Karin, are you ok?" she heard Yuzu ask as she came into her room, "You don't have to go to school if you don't want to."

Karin finally spoke up "No, I'm fine Yuzu." she saw her sister look unsure. "I promise. Besides the try-outs are in a few days." she said in a sleepy smile.

Yuzu simply rolled her eyes. "Your thinking of soccer when your hurt, yeah, your fine." she said as she returned the smile. "Ok well come down so you can at least eat before you leave" she said as she walked down stairs.

Karin got up and got ready, putting on her uniform, cursing the damned skirt, but happy it was faster to put on.

She jumped down stairs as she thought I'll ask Toshiro about it today, and TRY not to piss him off to bad... he did save me I guess. Karin wasn't exactly happy about being a 'damsel in distress' and was sure as hell she wasn't going to let it happen again. She wanted to take fighting classes, and she knew just where to get them. Uraharas! He had trained Ichigo to fight, after that he was stronger and faster and didn't come home beat up anymore.

Karin scarfed down her breakfast telling her sister she was going to go somewhere before school. "Ok just don't be late, Karin."

"I won't!" Karin said as she ran off toward Urahra's shop. She didn't tell Yuzu because she didn't want her to worry, or wonder why she's want to be able to defend herself.

She arrived at the shop and saw Jinta bullying Ururu about sweeping up before they left for school. Karin sighed and thought Some things never change...

She went up to the red head and hit him over the head with her book bag. "Damn, Jinta! Leave her alone!"

"Karin!" Ururu said while Jinta was getting off the floor.

"Damn! What do you have in there a dictionary?" Jinta yelled.

"No I have 2." Karin said with a smirk. (Can anyone tell me where that's from? XD)

"What are you doing here anyway?" he said.

"Oh can Urahara give me fighting lessons? You guys know how to fight professionally I know he taught you guys so..."

"I don't know Karin-chan," Ururu said. "You have to ask him, and knowing him he'll want a good reason."

"She probably need it for all those people who beat her up." Jinta added and he was again hit over the head with Karin's book bag with 2 dictionaries.

"Karin, your Nii-san is inside." Ururu informed.

"Really? About what?" s he questioned

"I don't know.."

"Yeah, but what ever it was, strawberry in there was in some mood." Jinta said rubbing the new bump on his head.

"Come on Jinta we have to get to school"

"Don't tell me what to do!" Jinta said. To avoid getting in the middle of another squabble she said something.

"Oh well I might as well get inside and talk to Urahara before I'm late to school. I'll see you guys at lunch I guess, Bye!" she said as she walked in and they left toward the school.

"Tell Yuzu I said hi!" Jinta said as he ran to school. Karin simply waved in a whatever fashion and continued to proceed into the shop.

Karin was about to walk in when she heard apart of their conversation.

"Damn, they keep attracting the Hyous and pretty soon the Hunter are going to come. Tell them they need to keep a low profile!" she heard Ichi-nii say.

"They will follow them where ever they go." She heard a calm voice she knew as Yaharas say. "They have the Elemental Otaku, which means they have to be safe. You don't want the Hyous to have that do you?" By the sound of his voice it sounded like he was grinning and the fact of her brother's silence meant he was right.

But what they hell are they talking about? What are the Hyous, and who's "they" and what the hell is Elemental Otaku? They sound insane, aren't those things like Fire, Water, Earth, and Air?

"You can come in." she head him say. She kept herself from jumping as he called her. Well so much for being sneaky... Karin thought. She opened the door and faced her brother.

"Karin? What are you doing here?" he asked. He must of realized she heard because he opened his mouth to say something but Urahara interrupted.

"She wants fighting lessons." Urahara stated as he looked towards her "Don't you?" Karin simply nodded as Ichigo started protesting.

"No, no way Urahara. Your not bringing her in this."

"Ichi-nii, it's my choice! I'm going to have these lessons weather you want me to or not! I don't have to listen to you!"

"Why the hell would you want them anyway, huh?"

"Because she's already attacked, right?" Urahara said looking to Karin. Karin stiffened a bit and nodded.

"Come after school, we'll explain then, your going to be late." he interrupted with a smirk on his face. Karin looked to her watch. "OH DAMN, DAMN, DAMN!" she said as she raced out of the shop. "I'll be here!" she yelled as she left.

"Are you going to tell her everything?" Ichigo questioned the man.

"Something tells me she already knows." he said as he sipped his tea.

***One Run Later***

Almost there, almost there. YES! She thought as she got into the doors of the school, but hung her head as the bell rang. Damn, my class is on the 2nd floor...

"So nice of you to join us, Kurosaki-san." The teacher said as Karin walked in a few minutes late.
"Do you have a late pass?" Karin simply shook her head as she made her way to her desk where Yuzu had a worried look on her face. "Since it's the begging of the year I'll let it slide, but don't make it a habit." she scolded.

She sat at her new seat by Yuzu, Toshiro and a tired looking Renji. Looks like he pulled an all nighter...

"You missed partnering for your new English book assignment, we drew papers and the only person left is Hitsugaya-san"

Just my damn luck...Karin thought. Wait I can ask him about last night. She looked to her new partner and saw he was busy with something. She looked a little closer and saw he was drawing, and tried to see what he was drawing. It looked like a dragon, but that dragon seemed to familiar, she's seen it some where before... but where?

"This year we are starting off with Poetry. You and your partner will be creating a book with both you and your partner's poems, and illustrations. If they are drawn that is extra points, but no stick figures. There must be at least 10 poems from each of you and an analysis of a poem you both pick. You must also make your own book cover., I will give you an example tomorrow. It will be due by the end of the *Six Weeks, you will be given the opportunity to work on it here in class but most of it will be on your own time. Any questions?" She teacher informed. Karin wrote all this down, knowing Toshiro wouldn't be paying attention, she never did when she was drawing. She figures maybe he was the same.

She kept on talking about the types of poems there was and how we needed more that one. At that time Yuzu started asking karin where she was.

"I went to Urahara's." She noticed Toshiro and Renji freeze for a second then relax "I saw Ichi-nii there and lost track of time. Oh and Jinta says hi." Karin said.

"Oh! Hows Ichi-nii?" Karin kept on talking to Yuzu while the teacher passed out some practice poetry worksheet and left them alone to work. She made sure not to mention anything and made up a conversation with her brother, giving hints every once in a while.

The teacher passed out some worksheet after explaining them and sat at his desk letting the class work on their work. Karin finished her work fairly fast Damn smart ass shorty...she thought as Toshiro quickly wrote his answers and kept on drawing. He hasn't even looked up. She looked over his shoulder and saw the pictures he was drawing. It was a dragon, spread across the whole paper in a graceful fashion. Where have I seen that before? I know I've seen it some where.... but I can't remember where. Suddenly the bell rang and she quickly started to get her things together, not wanting to be late to class. As she began to walk out she picked up a paper from the floor thinking it was her's. It was the drawing she saw Toshiro drawing.

I remember where this is from! This is the print on the Kimono I wear in my dream. How the hell would he know what it looked like? She tucked the picture away in the binder and ran to Math.

"Hey Momo." Karin said as she walked into math.

"Hi Karin." She saw the picture in on top of Karin's math binder. "Oh wow, did you draw that?"

"No, I found it on the floor. Have you eve seen this before? Like in an ad or something?"

"Nope not that I remember." she said with a smile, something was telling me she was holding something back but didn't want to push it. Something about Momo she liked... The rest of the class they talked, but in the back of Karin's mind she was thinking about Urahara's after school. Why the hell was Toshiro acting so weird when she mentioned Urahara's? She'd find out after school, but damn.. it was barley 2nd period.

In Science she walked in and saw Rangiku talking to Orihime, I never noticed Orihime here... oh well. She talked to the 2 girls for a while after the teacher finished giving out quick worksheet to keep up busy and rem embed the drawing. She stood in front of where Toshiro was sitting, reading. "Toshiro." no answer. "Toshiro." still no answer Short snowflake! Pay attention BAKA! She saw him tense a bit. She hoped she didn't say that out loud but got a cat like grin on her face, Something for those stupid fan girls glaring at me... "Oh Shiro-chan.." she said in a sing song voice. The fan girls watching her every move really wanted to kill her but hell it was worth it, those faces? Priceless. "What Kurosaki? And stop calling me that." he said in a pissed tone, still not looking up. She was happy for that, she wasn't in t he mood for one of those weird pictures. Those things were creeping her out.

"Your drawing" she said placing it on his desk. "You left it in the last class, where did you get the deign from?" She asked.

She....you there. She heard once again. "Did you say something, Renji?" she asked him unconsciously. She noted she slight shock in his face as he said "Um.. no." She looked back to Toshiro who was looking up at her.

"Will you quit that?" she burst, gaining the attention of the class, and a stern look from the teacher.

He grabbed his things and the bell rang, but she wasn't moving until she got an answer.

"It's none of your business." He said coldly as he jumped over a desk and went the other way. Did the temperature just drop? She didn't give a damn. Karin was really getting pissed off about his arrogant attitude."You know wha-"

"Karin! Come on, your going to be late." Yuzu said, stopping her twin sister. She sighed as she quickly grabbed her things and left. I swear he's going to piss me off to the point not even Yuzu is going to stop me from telling him off. Yuzu always told Karin she never wanted her to get into fights. Mostly because Ichigo would some times come home pretty bad saying he was jumped. She personally thought it was something else, but Yuzu did want Karin come home like that. It scared her to tear, tears Karin didn't want her shedding over her, or anything. Karin promised her mom she'd protect Yuzu, and didn't let any tears stain her face.

Toshiro walked out of the class room thoughts rushing in his head, he saw Renji catch up behind him. "Did I say that out loud or did she just hear our thoughts?"

"She defiantly heard it, but considering that she asked means it's either faint or she didn't hear all of it. I heard her thoughts too, but they were low."

"What were they?" Renji noticed the tick mark on his head, and after he laughed. "Ok, before you make me be on guard again tonight, changing the subject." as he sweat dropped, "How can she hear us? She's not.." he lowed his voice, "one of us, right?"

"No, she doesn't have the scent of one and one of us would have noticed if she was."

"Yeah, but she was talking about Urahara, remember?" Renji said.

"Yeah, and we know for sure it was him, she mentioned Jinta, that red head that works there."

"Uh huh." The Renji got a smile on his face. "She mentioned seeing the dragon on the kimono before."

Toshiro's tick mark appeared once again.

"Stop snooping through my stuff! AND that doesn't have anything to do with this."

"Never said it had to." he said as Toshiro turned to go into his class as Renji kept walking to head to he gym.

Karin met up with Momo doing the warm ups and the jog around the track. AS she ran around she noticed the baseball part of the field was, saw the weight lifting part next to it in the middle, and on the other side the tennis courts. And all around them was free space where the track kids would practice long distance running. Distracted, Karin hit her face hard on the gravel as Yachiru jumped on karin's back. "Rin-chan! I didn't know I had you for a class!" said the bubble gum haired girl.

"Yachiro can you get off me now?" she said as she stumbled to get up with the girl still clinging on her back.

"Haha your funny Rin-chan! Who's your friend?" she asked gesturing to Momo who was kinda shocked about the hyper active girl. "Oh, wait! Your one of snowflakes, and baldy's friends!" Momo laughed at Ikkaku's nickname. Karin laugh mostly because of Toshiro's nickname, it was the same one she gave him.. besides the shorty part of course.

"Yachiru! Come back already!" she heard Renji yell. It was easy to see Renji from across the field in another class, doing their own warm ups. Yachiru called back, said goodbye and sped off. She ran to Coach Zaraki and jumped on his back. That coach scared the crap out of Karin and Momo. Yachiru had mentioned that he was her uncle or something, but she also heard from Rangiku that her Dad left and her mom died when she was in 1st grade. She lived with him now.

Momo and Karin talked about being in the soccer team and trying out tomorrow. As they waited to do drills she could hear the coach talking to the class telling them to hurry and etc...

"Soccer is perhaps the most demanding of all sports! Few sports are played on as large a playing field, lasting as long and without regular rest periods. It consists of.." But she stopped listening as her eyes drifted to the baseball gmae. She nudges Momo on her arm and crooked her neck in Renji's direction. They were up next.

It was 'baldy' as Yachiru called him, Renji, and Yachiru herself all playing. Yachiru was up to bat. She stuck her tounge out at guys who were on the out feild saying to get closer, as the coach winded up and pitched "Damn..." Karin said as Yachiru hit the ball across the field. She skipped around all the bases and finlly home blowing raspberry at the kids at each base.

Karin quickly did her drill so she could continue to see them game. Up next was Ikkaku. He had a grin as she took his position, again the coach pitched and CRACK. That echoed through out the field making all eyes on that game. It went flying through the air to the tennis courts on the other side of the simply walked around the bases and made it home and gave renji a high five. It was renji's turn (Using a different ball of course) he did the same as Ikkaku with another loud CRACK and maybe even a little farther. Karin turned to Momo to staring at the two guys. Not in awe but in sternness and slight anger. She looked back and saw Ikkaku and Renji looking back at Momo, seeming like they were getting a yelling from their Mom. Karin's head started to hurt.

YOU GUYS! What the hell were you thinking? Everybody saw that! She heard a female voice, she was getting too used to, yell.

Crap what....do... time? She heard a male voice say.

They were playing baseball and hit it across the whole field for everyone to see!

You...idiots! A different male voice said Both.....guys...duty..tomorrow....after that. He continued.

Momo turned around and huffed and saw Karin clutching her head. "Are you ok Karin-chan?" Momo said.

"Um... yeah.. fine. I kinda hit my head pretty hard last night and i guess it's catching up to me."

"Oh really what happened?" Momo said in a surprised voice that was barley noticeable to be fake.

"Stupid me fell from the window, my parents found me outside my window knocked out." Momo's eyes went wide.

"Nani?" Momo said, That wasn't fake... "Oh, um, are you ok? Why did you come to school?"

"Ehh, i'm fine." Karin responded with a nervous chuckle.

Gym ended and they went inside to change. Karin took a while since he mind was gone thinking about those strange voice. The bell rang and she told Momo to go on without her realized she rushed when she was done changing before everyone else. She tied her shoe and was about to open the door when she heard Momo's voice.

"-outside of her house on the ground! We told you lay her down on her bed!" she scolded silently.

"Look," Ikkaku spoke "her brother was coming in and we hadn't gotten her all the way inside, it was more explainable then her just being on her bed anyway!"

"Come on! Lets get to lunch already i'm starving" Renji complained. Momo sighed and walked off with her friends. Leaving the eavesdropping Karin in her thoughts.

All Hail the Magic Button! Some one remembered and left a comment reminding me about it and look! Another chapter! xD So did you like it? and i think i'm obsessed with cliff hangers! Will i ever find a cure? Find out next time! xP

Oh and can anyone name the anime where i got "What do you have in there a dictionary?" "No i have 2" from? Extra fast answer means extra fast Chapter!

-Kitty